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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Post-9/11 Coverage

I was in India on Sept. 11, in Hyderabad for my grandfather's funeral. I was one of those travellers hop-scotching the world, trying to get back to the States as fast as I could. I ended up in Amsterdam with both of my brothers; they went cafe-hopping and shopping, I called in to The Globe and got put to work.

September 16, 2001

Stranded travelers hopscotch Europe in quest to get back to US

By Lylah M. Alphonse, Globe Staff

AMSTERDAM - As international airlines resumed flying to the United States and flight schedules inched toward normalcy yesterday, thousands of people stranded in Europe since Tuesday's terrorist strikes scrambled to return home. Those who had decided to spend their extra time doing a little more sightseeing were racing to rail stations, trying to get back to their original point of departure for the United States. ... [More]

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I'm Lylah M. Alphonse, a journalist, writer, editor, and blogger. "Write. Edit. Repeat." started out as my online clips file and evolved into a place where I dump my real (or mental) notebook from time to time. Check out my archives, click through the links to things I've written elsewhere, or drop me a line at WriteEditRepeat (at) gmail (dot) com. (Photo: Mike Saunders)